McCoy to Tell How Miia Mors Died by Self Inflicted Shot
Rich McCoy prepared to testify in his murder trial as he claims Miia Mors killed herself while he struggled to prevent her from stabbing herself. He described kissing her as she held a smoking pistol, insisting his intent was to save her life and that she was the love of his life.
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Miia
Mors
Self
International News Wire
Los Angeles
Cal
Rich McCoy
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Mrs. Mors
Severe Cold Snap Hits Midwest With Record Lows
The report notes subzero temperatures across Iowa with Mason City at 15 below and Keokuk and Denver also recording extreme cold. Train schedules in the state are largely unaffected while several fatalities occur amid winter hazards including frozen pipes and a house fire caused by a stove.
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Sioux City
Webster Citys
Charles City
Caduque
Rocky Mountain
Denver
General Hospital
Butte
Mont
Great Northern
Mason City
Legion to form American Legion band at Berker Chapman post
Plans announced at the Berker Chapman post meeting for forming an American Legion band. The group will be composed entirely of professional musicians and operate under the musicians' union. A two week practice schedule is stated with a dance planned after lent and a memorial event.
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Fesionnaire Aaliteetor
Bootusen Sonn
Orgeanizarion
Lezionnaires
Dhan
Cash wheat prices rise in Minneapolis market
Minneapolis trading notes show cash wheat advancing to around 2.10 per bushel with bids near 2.10 as buyers and sellers quote near 2.12. Wheat futures lifted with December gold futures reaching higher levels amid daily market activity.
Mortuary Notice for Mrs. Hora L Barber
Mrs Hora L Barber aged 48 of 1014 Sycamore Street Waterloo died yesterday at her home after a brief illness. Born November 1875 in Kent Hi, she married William Barber in August 1894 and had lived in Waterloo two years. Surviving are the husband two sons Guile and Clifford of Waterloo two daughters Mrs Frit of Waterloo and W Fort Dodger a sister Mrs Susan Wheeler of Tos Angeles. Body is at O Keefe and Tawne's pending funeral arrangements likely Sunday.
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Vora
Sycamore Street
Poan
Dora Vore
St Kent Hi
W. Fort Dodger
Susan Wheeler
Tos Angeles
O'Keefe & Tawne
Deposed Warden Allegations Hit Atlanta Prison
Ted Sartain and L B Fletcher, former warden aides at the Atlanta penitentiary, face preliminary hearing on charges of taking bribes of about ten thousand dollars to grant “soft and easy” privileges. Prosecutors aim to overturn the prison administration amid reports of a secret graft reign and tales of special-privilege dining and housing for favored inmates.
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Ted
Atlanta
A. Sartain
Depasert
L. BP
Fletcher
Depoly
United States
Sartani
Fieteler
Department of Justice
Nso
Death of 94-Year-Old Anna Bonn After Long County Life
Anna Bonn 94 longtime Black Hawk County resident died at 8 a.m. at her daughter Mrs John I Murphy's home in Waterloo. Born in Ireland in June 1831 she came to America at 18, lived in Pennsylvania Illinois and Cedar Falls before settling in Black Hawk County. Surviving are four sons two daughters and a number of grandchildren and a great grandchild. She was a Sacred Heart Catholic Church member with funeral plans pending.
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Black Hawk County
John I. Murphy
Fourth Street
Hmits
Arn| Renta
Ireland
America
Pennsylvania
John A. Bann
Ilinois
Oun
John
Dike
Stephen
Cedar Falls
Murphy
Waterloo
Tip on Burglars Triggers Shootout in Local Store
Hynes, Cal, Dee 19g oF. Manier ami Kasti and Capps Tete: ST store here last night to vestigate a tip that burglars were working nearby. They camal upon two deputy sheriffs sent from Los Angeles to investigate the sting report. Shots were fired. Mumer was critically wounded, Mapsn seriously hurt, and Ellison was shot near the elbow.
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Cal
Dee
Manier Ami Kasti
Capps
Depuy
Los Angeles
Mumer
Mapns
C. OW
Ellison
Lepitins
Fire destroys Cave Yin hotel. woman and child killed
A fire at the Cave Yin hotel early today killed a young woman and her one year old child Tashier who were buried in the blaze. Oliver Lewis, the woman's husband, was badly burned but escaped by leaping from a window. authorities believe the blaze was started by a stray candle left burning.
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Tashier
Cave Yin
Oliver Lewis
Nighties Thinned by Cold Fire Evacuation in Denver
Tenants fled a South Broadway apartment in ten below zero weather when a fire broke out early this morning. The flames were controlled quickly but many residents suffered exposure due to the extreme cold.
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Denver
Cala
South Broadway
Dubuque to Install Radio at Fee Rink Opening
In Dubuque Iowa officials plan a music enhanced rink opening next Sunday at the municipal skating venue. Firemen responded to a near two o’clock alarm at a warehouse due to an electrical fire. No injuries reported.
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Dubuiue
Fee
No Radio Laws At Present Congress Hoover Informed
Washington December 19 Hoover said Congress will take no action on radio law for 12 months. He expects extensive regulation after another year of development. He noted no one is suffering now and the industry can operate without harm while awaiting next December session.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Ion
de Borument
Ioever
United Riders Plan for Winter Race Fixes Revealed
Letters signed by the United Riders Society of America circulated in Chicago and sent to about 140 readers in major cities. The scheme proposed fixing one or two races weekly by placing agents on horses and sharing prizes for those who bet as directed. The society claimed branches in Toronto Montreal New York Cincinnati New Orleans Tijuana and Washington with a membership of 1000 jockeys.
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Yec
United Riders Society of America
Prometers
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Teronto
Montreal
New York
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Tijuana
Sheriff Seeks dry agents as Moon saloon shooting motive
Sheriff says four men who killed Omer Moon in a Chicago saloon were federal prohibition agents, not hijackers, and plans to bring witnesses to Cole Finch who disputes the givers of the fatal shots. Finch claims his father died in a dispute over obedience and bets. Skeety Motuan vows to dispatch deputies to Rock Island for additional witnesses to support Finch’s version.
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Omer Moon
Chicago
Peter
Walian
Hans
Cole Finch
Cale Finch
Skeetiy Motuan
Brother Kills Brother in Farmhouse Pistol Incident
In Clinton County a 14 year old boy, son of Ernest Payne, died after a pistol discharged in an upstairs farmhouse room. The 11 year old Francis Payne, his brother, allegedly dropped the weapon as they were alone, and the bullet struck the older boy as he waited nearby.
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Ernest Payne
Clinton County
Francis
Hotel Men of State Meet in Sioux City
Sioux City December 19 reports members of the Iowa State Hotel association attending the annual convention at the Hotel Martin. The first business session was held this morning and six o’clock dinner will follow with an after party and a dinner dance planned after the theatre. A northern party will be held later tonight.
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Bintedneh
Martin
Welock
Yarbage
Insanity May Be Refuge of Pastor From Death Rope
Mount Vernon Alabama December reports line the defense for Rev. Lawrence M Hight unfrocked minister charged with murder of Wikford Sweetin. Defense calls Dr H W Walker and Dr C G W Anderson to argue mental incompetence. Elsie Sweetin testifies, but cross examination by Prosecutor Thompson questions mob fear and her confession. Jury remains unsettled as defense seeks further explanation after potential insanity defense.
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Internationaal
Mount Vernon
Hera Joung
Lawrence M Hight
Inn
Wikford Sweetin
Eisie Sweetin
H.W. Walker
Creel
Elsie
Elgie
Esie
Columbus
Old Lum
Lum
Elsie Sweatig
Sion
Twight
Thompson
Salem
Sum
Wilford
Eisie
Hight
Wanderers Seek Shelter in Jail as Cold Snaps Hit City
A dozen homeless wanderers found refuge in the city jail as temperatures fell ten degrees below zero. The night marked the largest number admitted this winter, with inmates from Waterloo Iowa North Dakota Seattle Washington Superior Wisconsin Hastings Nebraska and other towns among the improvised sleepers seeking warmth and safety.
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Waterlooanal
Irom North
Pretty Girl Wins Parole After Forged Charge Trial
Ida Grove Iowa December 4 Emmai Oliver a 19 year old divorc ee on trial before Judge Ather ton G Clark for passing bad checks was sentenced to a term at Rockwell City but pleas of her attorney and promises of the girl for another chance resulted in a commutation. Judge Clark paroled her to the lawyer Thad Snell. The accused girl claims she was forced to crime by Glen Roke Gladbrook to ruin her boarding house in zero weather. Rokes will be sentenced today and the court indicated no clemency will be granted.
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Ida Grove
Dew
Emmai Oliver
Atherton G. Clark
Rockewll City
Clark
Thad Snell
Glen Roke
Gladbrook
Zero Werther
Rokes
Dorothy Dever's Oriental Dance Canceled at Pageant
Omakhu Neb Dec 19 Dorothy Dever’s Oriental dance will not occur at the Christmas pageant by the Transcoin Park Methodist church choir. Walter B Graham director cited a posed photograph and deemed the costume improper for church entertainment. Dever offered to modify the costume but Graham announced the dance is canceled.
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Neb
New York
Graham
President Names Oil Conservation Board for Gov't
President Coolidge created an oil conservation board composed of the secretaries of war navy interior and commerce to study government oil stewardship and to gain full cooperation of the oil industry. A naval fuel supply study commission will work with the new board to address future shortages and maintain industrial productivity.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Secretaries of War, Navy
Interior, and Commerce
Coolidge
Navy
War
Interior and Commerce
Gamblers Tried to Fix McCoy Murder Trial
Los Angeles investigators say a Spring Street gambling trust attempted to frame the jury in Kid McCoy’s murder trial. They expected the panel to be bribed and the target idol would go free, according to district attorney officials.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Kid McCoy
Four Girls Die in Oil Stove Explosion in Sistersville
Four girls perished and Mrs. Olive Jones was fatally burned when a fire destroyed the Jones home near Sistersville West Virginia today. Victims are Lotis Jones 17 Worothy Jones 42 Alice Jones 7 and Hazel Meyers 4. The blaze started from an oil stove when Mrs. Jones lit an oven fire.
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WL Va
Olive Jones
Jones
Lotis
Worothy Jones
Alice
Hazel Meyers
Bandits Loot Banks and Set Town Ablaze in Valleyview
Bandits looted the First National and the Guaranty banks in Valleyview Texas and set the business district ablaze. They carried away two safes weighing 4,000 pounds each. Fire damage was estimated at 160000 dollars.
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Tex
Valleyview Sarely
First National
The
Guaranty
Senate panel approves Underwood Muscle Shoals bill
The senate judiciary committee approved today a committee report on an editorial published in Hearst papers December 13 about the Underwood Muscle Shoals Bill. The report flags the editorial and outlines concerns regarding the measure. The action comes in Washington D C with the date noted as December 19.
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Washington, D. C
Hearst
Underwood Muscle Shoals
Senate Judiciary Committee
Woman Struck While Crossing Dies Near Death, 54
Nellie Mitchell, 54, lies near death with a fractured skull and broken collar bone after being struck by a small bay window on a sled near her home. She has been unconscious for over 70 hours. Berlin crisis deepens as Ebert and Mary suspend government talks until after the Reichstag convenes January 5.
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Sioux City
Nellie Mitchell
Berlin
Ebert
Mary
Ut Ist
Congress Asked to Approve Record 769 Million Budget
The House Appropriations Committee filed the largest peacetime supply bill, totaling 763,180,522 dollars for Treasury and Post Office activities for the next fiscal year. Treasury gets 126,911,160 dollars and the Post Office 636,269,415 dollars, with 11,000,000 for prohibition enforcement and 2,600,000 for transcontinental airmail. Coast Guard funding stands at 20,597,835 dollars.
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Famous Tenor McCormick Denies Boston Blackmail Story
John McCormick exploded in anger over Eleanor Barnes Levy's Boston hotel room tale of a $100,000 blackmail claim tied to Victor A. Searles. McCormick's manager called the allegations malicious and false, questioning the scenario of a famed tenor aiding a woman and being involved with a fictitious husband.
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New York
John McCormick
Boston
Eleanor Barnes Levy
Victor A. Searles
Back Bay
McCormick
John
Barefooted Burglar Strikes Des Moines Homes
Des Moines police report a barefoot burglar in eight below temperatures entered two east side homes, leaving no shoes and taking $24. Tracks showed the thief resumed walking without shoes, later leading to another nearby robbery of rings and silverware valued over $200. Police link the two incidents by similar footprints.
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Des Moines
Widow May Succeed Late Julius Kahn as Member of Congress
In San Francisco, Mrs. Kahn is expected to run unopposed to fill the late Julius Kahn’s seat after a special election. Kahn, long a leader in military affairs and conscription policy, will be honored as his body lies in state. Mineral services are planned for Sunday in the rotunda.
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Congress
San Francisco
Cali
Francisco
Alte
Jal
Kahn
John Nolan
Yellow Kid Weil in mine plant swindle plot
Chicago report describes preliminary negotiations in a suspected swindle linked to Joseph Weil known as the Yellow Kid. Herbert Durr and O J Willard, mining machinery makers of Danville, recount a scheme involving a Dr Warrington of New York seeking to buy a Danville plant for 1 500 700, with officials confirming the likeness of Weil in photographs.
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Chicago
Palice
Joseph
Yellow Kid" Weil
Herbert A. Durr
O. J. Willard
Danville
Yellow Kid
George BF. Goreman
Qurr
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New York
Dore
Willard
John Murphy
Well
Firemen Rescue Dozens from Ledge Fire In Cleveland
Firemen rescued nearly 30 men women and children from window ledges of a four story east side apartment building after a blaze sparked by an overheated furnace. Residents awakened by smoke escaped via stairs cut off by fire and were saved by firefighters.
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Cleveland
Clarin da Produce House Burns With 65000 Loss
Clarinda Iowa December 13 Fire of unknown cause destroyed the W E Keeney produce house and its contents. Loss about 65000. Two fatalities reported in a separate dispatch from Salt Lake City Utah December 19 stating a blaze near Carey Idaho claimed the lives of Mr and Mrs Wren Gand ester and two small children.
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W. ER. Keeney Produce
Salt Lake City
Utah
Wren Gandester
Carey
Idaho
State Briefs Towns City President Jessup’s condition unchanged
Carroll GC Bb Bowman a Coon Rapids banker died when his car overturned on an icy road. Mason City former mayor Nace Ketchell died after a brief illness. Sioux City fire at Up-To-Date Clothing Store caused $4,000 damage to store and fixtures. Manning auction sold Black Marshall XE champion bull at the International Livestock Show for $10,100 to Ef 0 Harrison.
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Carroll
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Coonapids
Mason City
Nace Ketchell
Sioux City
Fourth Street
N. Sodoff
Manning
Marshall
Escher & Ryan
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